From Daniel at Sherer.org Fri Mar 2 14:52:37 2007 From: Daniel at Sherer.org (Daniel Sherer) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:52:37 -0800 Subject: [Thousand-oaks-pm] Two weeks to Perl Mongers' meeting... some tidbits to hold you over Message-ID: <2817a58f0703021452l4cf51712k73ec8a9c3bf4c022@mail.gmail.com> Due to the first day of March falling on a Thursday, it will be almost 2 weeks before our next meeting. So, I thought I'd send out some information from Perl.com, their newsletter. They always have interesting contents and some of you may not already be receiving it. It's not too late to consider making a brief presentation at our next meeting (3/14). Looking forward to seeing you all then. 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URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/thousand-oaks-pm/attachments/20070302/979d7ffb/attachment.html From Daniel at Sherer.org Wed Mar 14 06:22:12 2007 From: Daniel at Sherer.org (Daniel Sherer) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:22:12 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-oaks-pm] PerlMongers meeting tonight! Message-ID: <2817a58f0703140622p59b0ae9fs71afa7be2caba834@mail.gmail.com> Hey, Finally, it's the second Wednesday. Time for our regular Perl Mongers' meeting. Should be some interesting stuff tonight as we didn't have a meeting last month (valentine's day) and I know there were some folks who wanted to give presentations. Who's our ValueClick rep for tonight? One other item, I've received some e-mail from folks looking to hire some local candidates in the WLV/TO area. If anyone is interested or knows someone who is looking for a new job, I'll pass along the mail. See you this evening! Daniel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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